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Hear softly

:- Doug.

Subtly, subtly
attend

:- Doug.

Leave something for the 200 year people to create!

:- Doug.

How to get something ambiguous, different for each imagination, to show up concrete?

:- Doug.

What does 300 years from now look like? Describe in details and particulars.

:- Doug.

Why you? Because you will do it.

:- Doug.

Mark the trail the way
you did not choose
wink

:- Doug.

The fullness of the moment
is hard and easy to see

:- Doug.

Maybe a way to describe a good humanity is to describe one gone astray.

:- Doug.

Meditation is choice. Choose thoughts or breath. Choose then or here.

:- Doug.

We can start a rhyme
or a rhythm
we can ring temple bells
as long as we lightly hold
the bells will sound

:- Doug.

Old thoughts are old
new thinking is hard
fruit unplanted grows bitter

:- Doug.

What bell was rung 300 years ago you feel today?

:- Doug.

Temple bells
ringing longer
than you hear

:- Doug.

Sometimes the wrinkles come to this part of the cloth.

:- Doug.

The task might actually be to convey the task of far-seeing.

:- Doug.

If the animals could speak personally to us, call us by name, would we yet eat them?

:- Doug.

Invite subtly, so subtly we think it was our idea. Softly. Less than whisper.

:- Doug.

Across the centuries
Invite a rhyme
Invite a rhythm

:- Doug.

On a crisp autumn day twenty some years ago I was waiting at a traffic signal on East Jefferson Blvd. Through my open windows the sunlight became sharp, and all the leaves, people, and cars stood out distinctly from their backgrounds. Every thing was fresh, sharp, and new, yet nothing was different.

:- Doug.

We can help how humanity takes in our world.

:- Doug.

I think we can get to a better humanity: it will take us a few centuries.

:- Doug.

Softly gently we reach out to the generations.

:- Doug.